Sentences with phrase «auspicious title»

Kevin Underhill reports that Nadya Suleman, also known as the «Octomom,» wants to trademark that auspicious title, since the single, unemployed, mother of 14 is unlikely to snag «America's Sweetheart» (and duking it out with Courtney Love could get ugly);

Have you ever wondered how the Wizard of Oz got that auspicious title?

In 595, John had assumed the auspicious title of Universal Bishop, which Gregory thought to be self - serving and regrettable.8 In order to demonstrate his own response Gregory publicly defined the role of the Roman bishop as the servant of the servants of God (servus servorum domini), a term that thereafter was used to describe the heart of papal authority and one which has been thereafter always associated with the Gregorian political imagination.

Not exact matches

Keen, who has been referred to as «the godfather of Texas Music» (a title that arguably could be shared with such other singing / songwriting Texans as Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, and Jerry Jeff Walker), is enjoying an auspicious 2009.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

Calling into question the very meaning of the film's title, the climax of Pearce's auspicious debut seems to come out of left field, but it makes a kind of perfect, if perverse, sense.

Released theatrically under its original title «Auggie Rose,» «Beyond Suspicion» marks an auspicious debut for director Matthew Tabak, who has created a fascinating character study disguised as film noir.

Gareth Edwards, Marc Webb, Colin Trevorrow, Jon Watts, Ryan Coogler, and now Taika Waititi have all been scooped up after auspicious Sundance bows to take on massive tentpole titles.

Thus, higher status persons received higher status sarcophagi (associated with their title) in a more auspicious location, and slightly more elaborate forms of some other ritual paraphernalia; yet all received essentially the same set of the really important offerings, and all the deceased were conducted to the afterworld at the same time by the same set of priests (sometimes groups request that their group's priest participate, so in these cases all are conducted by their respective priests at the same time).

Rashid Johnson took the title of his auspicious New York solo debut from a 1964 book of poems by LeRoi Jones, now Amiri Baraka, that he produced during a transitional phase in his career, between his associations with the Beat movement and black nationalism.

Karlsson's chosen title, then, is not an auspicious start, and the tone and accuracy of his article is downhill from that point.